Usually when you send a message to a mailing list your name is going to show up if your email client is setup that way. I don't think it is a big deal. My name is all over ports and problem reports anyways. I have also never experienced a negative impact for being involved in the FreeBSD community; except for maybe some more spam since my email address is pretty much public record.

I sense an unwillingness to change the current theme, so before be bury this issue I would like to make a final point.

I agree with DD that the fbsd forum is a bit hard on the eyes but atleast it looks/feels 'alive'.
Going by the looks on this forum I feel as though it has no 'identity'.

If you were making your homepage would you use the free template that possibly a thousand others are using?
Or are you going to say that only content matters, nevermind that surfers don't care to give your page a second look?
Are you going to use the same blue-on-blue like theme?

Red is the colour of Fbsd and I suppose Obsd is yellow and Netbsd orange.

a certain yellow-on-black popular (mid editing this
post I discovered on google's cache "quantcast.com"
which reports 200k/monthly visitors ) hardware forum has
super-easy-to-read at least from here... LOL on the
other hand google's cache reports it as white-on-black.
So until I login to it today I am clueless. OTOH
the bsd-official forum theme I find less easy to read
than this one. If it was changed to this one I'd be okay
with it. (if that is a UserPanel option i've to discover
in the next half hour, clueless again... )

Well, it was on my todo list to work on a more BSD inspired theme and submit it, but atm it is something like #47 out of 128 on my todo list.... important, but not a major priority with so much else piled up.

I have no love for this forums look, but it does grow on you, just like vBulletin hehe.

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Originally Posted by phoenix

There's nothing worse than looking at a black-on-white screen, or a white-on-black screen. It's very hard on the eyes.

They want my real name in order to let me sign up? What if I run for political office some day and my opponent digs up the fact that I was signed up for the official FreeBSD forums, and that BSD's permissive license smacks of libertarianism, and thus I'm anti-government and therefore an anarchist?!?!

Well, if you *are* an anti-government libertarian and looking to run for office, you're not alone on here, or in being a FreeBSD user.

I was just wondering about the freebsd channel on youtube. I guess you can use gnash etc to view youtube. But since there is no official support for flash in freebsd and from what I understand, there are people in the freebsd world that are not too enthusiastic about flash, how come they chose youtube. Is youtube not a reason why flash is so big.

Since the people in charge of freebsd know what they are doing, I assume that there is a perfectly good reason, besides convenience too. But I admit I feel a bit confused, can someone explain this to me.